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#11
Originally Posted by smackpotato
there are times you will want to use -playlist
Is there any documentation of this option? what is it good for?

thanks
bsterix
 
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#12
MPlayer supports -playlist option, its usage is described in mplayer documentation: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/index.html

But generally you need to create a text file which contains names of your media files, one file name per line (playlist.txt for example). Then you need to run MPlayer with -playlist option:
mplayer -playlist playlist.txt

Some other useful options are -shuffle (randomize order) and -loop (play files in a loop). For example the following command line uses all these options to infinitely play files from some playlist in random order:
mplayer -loop 0 -shuffle -playlist playlist.txt

PS. You need the latest version on MPlayer (at least mplayer_1.0rc1-maemo.6) as the older versions had a bug that prevented from playing more than one file per mplayer run.
 
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#13
Originally Posted by Serge View Post
MPlayer supports -playlist option, its usage is described in mplayer documentation: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/index.html

But generally you need to create a text file which contains names of your media files, one file name per line (playlist.txt for example). Then you need to run MPlayer with -playlist option:
mplayer -playlist playlist.txt

Some other useful options are -shuffle (randomize order) and -loop (play files in a loop). For example the following command line uses all these options to infinitely play files from some playlist in random order:
mplayer -loop 0 -shuffle -playlist playlist.txt

PS. You need the latest version on MPlayer (at least mplayer_1.0rc1-maemo.6) as the older versions had a bug that prevented from playing more than one file per mplayer run.
How do you create a "text file which contains names of your media files"? Which program(s) on the N800 do you use? I am a newbie to working with mplayer, Could you guide me through the process of creating and playing a playlist step by step? Thanking you in advance for any help that you can provide.
 
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#14
bnk1999
If you have installed Xterm ( look it up ) and your music ( for instance ) is in
Code:
/media/mmc1/mp3
then from the command line

Code:
find /media/mmc1/mp3/Gary_Moore -print > plist.txt
to give a playlist of just the one sub directory or for everything under /media/mmc1/mp3 then

Code:
find /media/mmc1/mp3 -print > plist.txt
then

Code:
mplayer -loop 0 -shuffle -playlist plist.txt
Rick
 
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#15
Thanks rcull. I will try this out when I get home tonight.
 
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#16
Works great! Thanks for your help.
 
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